Cette auteure explore les complexités de la sexualité et de l'intimité humaines, puisant souvent dans des expériences personnelles qui repoussent les limites conventionnelles. Son écriture est incisive et franche, révélant les motivations et les désirs cachés qui animent le comportement humain. À travers un style narratif captivant, elle offre une perspective unique sur les relations interpersonnelles et les normes sociétales. Son travail met au défi les lecteurs de reconsidérer les sujets tabous avec un nouvel éclairage.
La première chose que vous devez savoir, c'est que je suis une pute. Je n'emploie pas ce mot à la légère. Je ne l'utilise pas pour " secrétaire ", " employée sous-payée " ou pour " jeune pigiste travaillant dur pour gravir les échelons ". Pour beaucoup de mes amis, travailler comme intérimaire ou vendeuse équivaut à de la prostitution. C'est faux. Je le sais, j'ai fait de l'intérim et j'ai baisé pour de l'argent, et cela n'a rien à voir. Il y a un monde entre les deux.
Game over? Belle is starting to wonder if she should call time on the call girl business - get a day job, a life free from secrets and have a 'normal' relationship with the Boy. But will Belle cope with the nine-to-five, a staggering decline in her underwear budget and no more paying clients?
This book is funny, surprising and always entertaining. Just sit back, relax and listen to what your friends are too polite to tell you. About when you need or want a man and when you damn well don't. Whether you want to find men, lure them, ditch them, hitch them here's the lowdown.
From the summer of 2003 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a frank, funny and award-winning diaries. She was the first to reveal (among other things) how she became a working girl, what it feels like to do it for money, and where to buy the best knickers for the job. She also discusses her efforts to change from 'working girl' to working girl, whilst sneaking off to visit clients in her lunch hour. From debating the literary merits of Martin Amis with naked clients to smuggling whips into luxury hotels, this is a no-holds barred account of the high-class sex-trade, and an insight into the secret life of an extraordinary woman.
What Belle de Jour did next... this is the sparkling, witty and titillating follow-up to the bestselling INTIMATE ADVENTURES OF A LONDON CALL GIRL.''She lists like Hornby. She talks dirty like Amis. She has the misanthropy of Larkin and examines the finer points of sexual technique as she is adjusting the torque on a beloved but temperamental old E-type...It's hard to believe that this clever and candid new voice has no more to say. Whoever the author is, she should give up the day job. Only then will we find out what the real Belle de Jour is made of.' IndependentThis follow-up to the hugely successful 'Intimate Adventures' will be just as bold, funny and brilliant. Peppered with agony-aunt letters and advice, and stories from her 'working' life, it's also the story of a young woman making her way in the world - told in Belle's inimitable voice.
"Erykah Macdonald has a nice life - the kind of life you're meant to want. But on her twentieth wedding anniversary, she's about to cross a line. Several hundred miles away in the shallow waters of a Hebridean island, a body is found. It's been in the water long enough to make identification tricky but it's clear this is no accidental death. Erykah knows she's about to make a choice you can't reverse - but she's lived with secrets most of her life - she thinks she's ready. The trouble is, there are far worse secrets than her own about to emerge. From the gurney of a morgue in the Highlands, to the media circus of the national press, and from the seemingly calm suburbs of London to the powerplays in Westminster, a net is tightening. And those that find themselves caught in it are willing to kill to get out with reputations intact. Erykah must work out what she's capable of if she's going to keep her head above water - she must leave behind her comfortable life and start breaking rules. She knows she should be scared ... but sometimes, stepping over the line is the first step to freedom"--Publisher description
